Creative copyright is weird. While you couldn't go out and make your own Star Wars movie without getting sued by Lucasfilm, ...

For those of you who thought that the monster in the upcoming Steamboat Willie horror movie, Screamboat, would be the stuff ...

A new Screamboat photo previews David Howard Thornton’s role as the terrifying Steamboat Willie from the upcoming horror ...

A new look at Screamboat reveals a first look at Terrifier 1-3 star David Howard Thornton playing a murderous version of ...

Steamboat Willie is a play on its name. "Mickey Mouse made an appearance in a film for the first time that very much relied on another copyrighted work that helped propel its popularity," McLeod ...

A Steamboat Willie slasher flick was always going to ... trailer (as first shared by IndieWire in August 2024), but the Mickey Mouse precursor character was not depicted in it.

Barely two days in the public domain, the earliest iteration of Mickey Mouse is on a rampage. Slashed free of Disney’s copyright as of Monday, the iconic character from Steamboat Willie is ...

Disney's copyright to 'Steamboat Willie' expired Monday along with its right to the original versions of Mickey and Minnie Mouse. But it still holds copyrights for the later, more familiar ...

While Disney retains exclusive rights to its depiction of Mickey Mouse from its own works, the character as depicted in the 1928 short film Steamboat Willie entered public domain at the beginning ...